“Socks are key. Dry socks in fact. They’re the most important thing you need to pack,” my guide Giorgi says nonchalantly. “You should never go hiking without an extra pair.” I nod approvingly but ...

The mountain worlds of the Caucasus mark the border between Europe and Asia. The film shows the species and landscape diversity of the lesser Caucasus in Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan. Shielded from ...

This story appears in the October 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine. The men gather at dawn near the stone tower, cradling knives in callused hands. After a night of snowfall—the first of the ...

The Caucasus is a region between the Black and Caspian seas that contains the Caucasus Mountains. It is known for its linguistic diversity: aside from Indo-European and Turkic languages, the ...

An international research team, coordinated by the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History (MPI-SHH) and the Eurasia Department of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) in Berlin, is ...